Dentists and medical specialists

Diagnosis and empathy

Dentists and medical specialists know that in the health care sector in the Netherlands, following an empathic track is at least as important as following an analytical track in order to come to a good diagnosis. The Dutch patient wants to feel heard when he/she leaves your consultation room. Empathy hereby involves more than just ready-made sentences (such as “How annoying for you!”), which have the suggestion of an instant solution. Empathy means being alert to a patient’s actual, often unexpected, needs (including non-verbal ones). That‘s why we practice many role plays in our courses to practice the patient-doctor conversations and teach you how to communicate (verbally and non-verbally) flexibly and empathically in the Dutch healthcare culture.

Individual courses

The more advanced the language course, the more the training will focus on the practice of the medical specialist (even on your own medical specialism). In case you are interested in an individual (immersion) training, tailor made for medical purposes , from A2- level onwards please, look here:
https://www.dutchindialogue.com/programs/course-intensity/crash-course

or https://www.dutchindialogue.com/programs/course-intensity/part-time-course

Of course it is possible to pay attention to a medical Dutch context from 0-level onwards Please, find our example down below. But, keep in mind: social Dutch plays a vital role in patient-doctor communication.

B2+ -group courses for BIG-registration

Our advanced course Medisch Nederlands, B2->C1 for refugees is fully oriented to the medical/dental practice and proves to be an excellent preparation for the B2+ -exam. During this training not only does your medical Dutch become flexible at an advanced level. The many medical role plays and simulations also prepare you thoroughly for the B2+ -exam. All parts of the exam are discussed in detail: patient interviews, medical reporting, reading of professional articles, presenting medical information.

In addition, we pay a lot of attention to the Dutch doctor-patient relationship and the Dutch healthcare culture.
If fewer than 8 refugee dentists/doctors participate in the biennial course, it is additionally open to foreign doctors from other backgrounds. Please sign up at the bottom of this web page: https://www.dutchindialogue.com/programs/course/medical-dutch-for-uaf

E-Learnings

Dutch in Dialogue developed special e-learnings for dentists/doctors (medical Dutch at B2+ -level) in cooperation with UAF. UAF-clients have access to these learning materials via their learning platform. For other medics, doctors, dentists with a foreign background this material is available for a fee at: https://www.medicaldutch.com/

Created by professionals for professionals

list of Dutch-English medical terms
list of Dutch-English dental terms
Dutch language tool for foreign dentists

Have a look at the references

Diagnosis and empathy

Individual courses

B2+ -group courses for BIG-registration

A1-A2: VOCA: (tand)arts begin

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